UK to Canada calls
 

This must have been discussed before (so apologies),but I can't get the search tool to return anything relevant.

Can anyone recommend a good international calling card company to use for calling Canada that has clear call quality. Many use voice over IP and have poor reviews.

Thanks in advance

Chris

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From my experience there isn't anything better than face-time over 2 ipads. sure it has a high price for setup, but then calls over wi-fi are free, and talking with your family face to face with no lag and perfect sound quality? priceless.

For all general calls I use skype, calling landlines are super cheap, never had a problem with quality, Use the skype ap on my iPhone, so its just like calling normally

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Thanks Chris,

Skype et. al. will be fine when I'm over there and communicating with friends and family etc... I just want to ensure call quality if I'm ringing potential employers from the UK in an attempt to set up meetings/interviews.

I get quality problems with Skype when doing video calls (even to people in the UK), but never tried Skype out to call land lines (I'll probably give it a go though).

Any one else have other good quality options?

Cheers

Chris

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BT landline;)

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As has been said, a BT landline.

BT offers a service called international freedom where for 5 pounds per month you can call a number of countries including Canada for free (up to an hour)

http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...?topicId=25500

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Thanks.

I have cable rather than BT, but I'll see if virgin media do anything similar.

Cheers

Chris

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I get my land line and calls through O2, and as part of the package I get 100mins a month of international calls, and Canada is included as a country I can call. Depends how much you plan to be calling, but I find it very handy :)

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Just call
http://www.justcall.co.uk/

1p per minute, no card needed.

I used it for my telephone interview.

Re: UK to Canada calls
 

Looks good.

I'll give it a go.

Chris

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we use skype to landline all the time; it's crystal clear and costs $8 a month for unlimited free landline calls

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My hubby's in Vanvouver at the moment in a reccie trip. He's actually in New Westminster and tried skyping four times to our landline. Hopeless!!!! Why would that be? Everyone raves about skype but I couldn't hear him, he then couldn't hear me and the time delay was so bad when we actually did have a moment where connection was okay we kept tripping over each other's speech. Most disappointing....I was really looking forward to speaking to him too :(

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you need a good internet conection & a good device to skype from,

I was using an iphone, wifi, 8mbps average bandwidth.

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sounds like some kind of affects of network latency or pc performance/setup. sometimes if you've got a lot of things running in the background this can make it worse.

all I can say is Eastlink to BT is always clear and no latency I can tell.

but don't worry, Microsoft is to buy Skype so we're all doomed!

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That looks good....is there a Canadian equivalent that my hubby can use whilst he's in Vancouver. Like the poster above said, I don't think he can rely on the Internet provider used by his b and b hosts.....

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We had Virgin Media. Last year it was an extra £1 per month which gave all calls to North America (and some other countries) for 2p a minute.